White House tries to distance Donald Trump from from aides amid FBI Russia probe

The White House has tried to distance itself from two former senior members of Donald Trump's team amid an FBI investigation into possible connections between "associates" of the US president and Russia.

White House press secretary Sean Spicer referred to Mr Trump's former national security adviser Michael Flynn as a "volunteer of the campaign", and said Paul Manafort, who ran Mr Trump's campaign for months, "played a very limited role for a very limited amount of time".